Almost every morning my breakfast is a delicious, nutritious kefir smoothie. No other breakfast is as satisfying; I just feel better when I have my smoothie. The smoothie I like best is made with raw goat milk kefir, cocoa powder, and banana. Here’s my recipe:

Measure kefir into a beaker [I prefer to use a heavy-duty borosilicate glass beaker rather than the plastic beaker that came with my hand blender.] Add–in any order–banana, flaxseed, coconut oil, cocoa powder, egg yolks, and stevia. Using a hand blender, blend until well combined and the flaxseeds are broken up. [Note: if seed pieces in your smoothie bother you, just omit the flaxseeds. I love the chewy bits of seed in my smoothies, but not everyone likes to chew on their smoothie.]

The smoothie could be made in a regular blender, but I like the ease of cleaning up using the hand blender and beaker. I also usually just sip my smoothie out of the beaker–saves one more cleanup.

Variations:

Instead of the banana and cocoa powder, add 1/4 cup fresh or frozen organic blueberries and a dash of organic cinnamon. This is probably my second favorite. Instead of blueberries, I sometimes use mixed berries. We can get local blueberries in season, but I buy the other fruits fresh or frozen, organic, of course.

I make my own kefir and have used cow milk kefir to make the smoothie; however, although cow milk kefir is good, I really prefer the extra zing of the goat milk kefir. But for drinking plain, I like fresh raw cow milk better than goat milk.

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I do the same every morning, adding 1 T raw almond butter and greens – kale, beet , parsley, whatever I have on hand, about 1 cup. My newest addition is nopales (cactus pads). I also add 1 T of turmeric and 1/2 t of cinnamon for their health benefits.

At Fiesta they blend the nopales and give out samples. It has a light, refreshing flavor, a little sweet, a little sour. They sell bags of pieces, I put most of them in the freezer in a bag and just break off a few pieces into my shake. I freeze my bananas, too.

I’ll have to try the nopales. Several years ago I froze my bananas, mostly to thicken the smoothie to a slushie consistency, but I’ve learned that I prefer the taste of fresh banana to that of a frozen banana, even if the smoothie isn’t as thick. I don’t know why freezing a banana should change the taste for me, but it does.

Interesting, I’ve never thought about how freezing changes the taste. But I’ve got so many flavors going on I guess I haven’t noticed. I do use the quart sized smoothie jar on my Oster, blend right into it, snap on the lid, then drink all mourning at work.